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V-KYR, Walt, and especially Red Sands, thank you very much for your patience and help. After Red Sands' post I studied my situation some more. The main issue was finding an .exe file. In all the previous machinations I performed from info on older posts, I was looking for it in C"/Users/Name/App Data or affinity. I finally searched in C;/Programs/Affinity/Photo2 and found it. I know it may sound simple to you but this old guy that started before Windows was a thing and is now struggling to keep up it wasn't so simple. Thanks again all! Now back to the main point of photo processing.

Walt, Thanks for the response but I've already tried the uninstall/reinstall with the exe/msi installer and it didn't work. In reading thru pages and pages of posts, I find I'm not the only one with this problem....and I did uninstall the mxsi version first.

Well, I think I'm done. I'm pretty good at photo processing but as a 76 yr old I'm past the point of being tech savy. I've read pages and pages of posts on this subject but I don't know how to write a .bat file or where to put it or how to accomplish many of the other suggestions for a "work around". Why should I have to? This doesn't seem to be an issue with many other programs I use in conjunction with Lightroom Classic. I had used Affinity for a number of years before this issue came up and was happy with it's performance. I bought V2 with high hopes of an even better experience. I guess I'll just chalk it up as a bad investment. This shouldn't have to be rocket science....but I guess it is.

Patience and understanding please! I used to think I was tech savvy (about 15 yrs ago) but am now having a terrible time getting Photo V2 to work with Lightroom. I actually gave up using Affinity because I couldn't figure it out. I stumbled on this thread and thought Ahaa!....so I deleted my Affinity2 file and downloaded the MSI installer/program. I opened Lightroom chose a photo and went Photo/Edit In/Affinity Photo/Edit with LR Adjustments. Lightroom made a .psd copy but nothing else happened. Photo 2 didn't open. Please help.

I'm a 75 yr old "used to be tech savvy" guy trying to get to Affinity Photo 2 from Lightroom. I have read all of this string and anything else I can find on the subject but it's just too darned complicated. Will Affinity Photo 2 have a simple way (similar to Photo 1) to get to from Lightroom. Photo 2 is pretty useless to me without it.

I have been using Lightroom 5.7 for a looooong time and had no problem with Affinity Photo up to version 1.8 in using Affinity as an external editor in Lightroom. I did the upgrade to Affinity 1.9 through the Affinity store and now cannot get 1.9 to run through Lightroom. When I try to direct the Lightroom/preferences/additional external editor to the Affinity.exe it does not show up even though I can see the file in the Windows file manager. As Roseanna Roseannadanna said......"It's always something"......... Help please?

I can get the program to open but when I try and open a file it crashes....If I try and open the same file a second time it opens but when you try to do anything with the file it crashes.

Thanks Dan!

Nothing moved or resized.

I was working on this image in Affinity, took a lunch break and had to "wake up" the computer when I got back....This is what was there when the computer resumed??? I can't figure out how to get it back to the full canvas??? Help please.... Larry

Smadell, I understand about duplicating the background layer but as a “newbie” and not totally comfortable with a new program I feel safer duplicating. Hopefully the day will come when I don’t feel the need, and Carl123 has some good points too.

Ah, thanks very much!

A very newbie AP question.... I open an image and lock the layer; make a duplicate layer, then crop the duplicate layer. If I delete the duplicate layer, the original locked layer is cropped also and no way to undo the crop. I thought the purpose of duplicating the base layer was to make all changes above the base layer non-destructive? Am I missing something basic? Windows 10, i7 processor.

Yup, does it every time....Before and after going into sleep mode.

Dan, I am running AP 1.6.5.135 on Windows 10 with an i7 processor. My Windows Display Scaling is set to 125%. I will try and replicate again today to give you any more details I can. Thanks in advance....